10gfat
per tablespoon of mayo, tartar, sour cream, cream cheese, most dressings
Four restaurant foods, taken apart on stage. Every number on this page came from the episode — press play and watch the plates build as Scott and Jenny talk through them.
Blood sugar sitting at 90, no insulin on board, flat arrow. Best-case conditions on purpose, so nothing muddies the picture. If your ratio is 1:6, your numbers are bigger — the shape is identical. 14:07
One slice. An eighth of a pie. Meringue on top.
one slice each
| Topping | Carbs | Protein | Fat | Total insulin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naked — no topping | 49g | 6g | 16g | 5.74u |
| Whipped cream | 52g | 7g | 27g | 6.55u |
| Meringue | 62g | 8g | 16g | 7.08u |
Go from whipped cream to meringue and the carbs go up ten grams while the fat drops by eleven. Two desserts that look identical under the fork.
It shows up at the end of a meal you've already bolused for.
A bowl of chili you can pick apart with your eyes. A pie is a mix — the sugar is already dissolved into it, and how much the baker pushed in is anybody's guess. Cheesecake does exactly the same thing to you.
Bread, pork, ham, Swiss, pickles — and butter, pressed right into it.
Two rules, no app. The pork on the nose, the roll within a slice of bread.
65 grams of carb — and 113 grams of fat and protein sitting behind it.
Everything has its impact. Take the protein out and you lose 1.28 units. Take the fat out and you lose about 2.2. Leave both in and the sandwich needs 3.49 units that have nothing to do with carbohydrate — and it wants them over eight hours.
Everything scales — including the clock.
Less fat and protein doesn't just mean less insulin. It means the tail is three hours shorter.
Two cakes, fries, coleslaw, tartar sauce. Restaurant portions.
“The fries sometimes are just the delivery device for the ketchup.”
Eight hours. You ordered lunch and you're still dosing for it at bedtime.
Liquid carbs don't feel like carbs.
No fat. No protein. Nothing holding them up — they arrive fast and all at once. Two Cokes is more insulin than the entire slice of pie.
Beer battered. Deep fried. And not, apparently, mozzarella sticks.
Count the carbs perfectly, dose them perfectly, and you have covered less than half of it. Then you spend the rest of the night wondering what went wrong.
Curds, crab cakes, Cubana, pie. In one sitting. As a life choice.
| Course | Carbs | Protein | Fat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheese curds | 31 | 33 | 57 |
| Crab cake plate, with ketchup | 107 | 39 | 74 |
| Cubana | 65 | 64 | 49 |
| Key lime pie | 62 | 8 | 16 |
| Dinner | 265g | 144g | 196g |
And that's before anybody orders a drink.
“You have fulfilled your fat content for, like, many days.”
9.75 units short. Not because you counted wrong — because you counted the wrong things.
On the episode Scott added the meal up with the whipped-cream pie and without the ketchup — 235 carbs, 143 protein, 207 fat, 29.8 units. This page uses the meringue pie and the ketchup, the same versions as the plates above.
It's a lot of carbs, so you hit it hard up front. But all that fat is holding the food in your stomach and the insulin gets there first.
You dose, it doesn't move. You dose again. And again. Then the fat finally clears, all that stacked insulin arrives at once — and now you're low at two in the morning wondering what happened.
Same meal. Same person. The only difference is when the insulin showed up.
Everything she used on stage, no tool required.
“The majority of people of all walks of life are walking around with a computer in your pocket. Make use of it.”
“You don't have to fight with your meal all afternoon.”
Every number on this page, with your own settings.
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